# OLIN CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `29763`
- **Case Number:** 05-1996-0315
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $6K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- OLIN CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

OLIN CORPORATION, A VIRGINIA CORPORATION, OPERATES A         FACILITY IN EAST                                             ALTON, ILLINOIS.  AN INSPECTION WAS HELD BY EPA              REPRESENTATIVE ON JUNE                                       22, 1994.  THE FACILITY WAS FOUND TO HAVE 2 PCB TRANSFORMERS AND 9 PCB                                                    CONTAMINATED TRANSFORMERS.  WOODEN PALLET WAS FOUND WITHIN   FIVE METERS                                                  OF ONE OF THE TRANSFORMERS (300 KVA MADE BY I.T.E. IMPERIAL  CORPORATION).  THE LOCATION IN PROXIMITY TO THE PALLET WAS A VIOLATION                                                    OF 40 CFR 761.30(A)(L)(VIII).  A RELEASE OF PCBS FROM A      DEVICE KNOWN AS                                              NA AEROFALL MILL ELECTROMAGNETIC SEPERATOR ALSO OCCURRED     BETWEEN APRIL 6                                              AND MAY 2, 1994.  THE MATERIAL WAS REMEDIATED WITH AN        ABSORBENT                                                    MATERIAL.  THIS PCB LADEN MATERIAL WAS THEN SHIPPED IN 2     LAIDLAW WASTE                                                SYSTEM, ROLLOFF BOXES TO LAIDLAW'S ROXANA, IL FACILITY       DURING APRIL                                                 1994.  THE MANIFESTS DESCRIBED THE WASTE SHIPMENTS AS         NON-HAZARDOUS                                               AND  OIL CONTAMINATED WASTE.   THE FACILITY WAS NOT THEN     AUTHORIZED TO                       

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